MFA in Creative Writing low-residency program

MFA Offered in Poetry, Fiction, and Literary Nonfiction

Want to Apply in 2010?

PLEASE CLICK on the HOW TO APPLY button for all the latest deadline information and for the links to UAA's on-line application for graduate school.

The dates for the Summer 2010 residency at UAA are:

Arrival: Saturday July 10, 2010 (arrival by 4:00 p.m.)

Departure: Thursday, July 22, 2010 (departure anytime after 2:00 p.m.)

BRIEF OVERVIEW:

At the heart of this innovative program lies the literary connection of writers and place. No matter how diverse such connections, the North’s boundless terrain allows writers to locate their own place in the world. Explore the landscape of memory, family, and culture. Take your imagination from the local to the global. Reach from the personal to the communal.

The MFA is a 45-degree credit program culminating in a book-length thesis of creative work. Our three-year degree offers studies in fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction. Students learn the mastery of craft and read widely in the classical tradition while exploring the evolution of their genre.

Summer 2009 Public Readings

The summer 2009 public readings were held from 8:00 p.m to 9:30 p.m. at UAA's Rasmuson Hall 101, from Sunday, July 12 through Wednesday, July 22, 2009.

For the complete schedule of the nine FREE, public readings, including detailed biographies of the writers and artists who appeared, click here.

Click here to listen to podcasts of the 2009 Northern Renaissance Arts & Science Reading series.

There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks.
Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough,
to pay attention to the story. ~Linda Hogan